Nuns belonging to the order founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta have been beaten and robbed.
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“I had read about the opportunity to volunteer, and I decided that was what I wanted to do”, Gillen says.
Mother Teresa once said, “If I ever become a saint – I will surely be one of ‘darkness.’ I will continually be absent from Heaven – to light the light of those in darkness on earth”.
Perhaps the best-known modern saintly pair of friends would be Mother Teresa and John Paul II, whose lives intersected many times during her time as Mother Superior of the Missionaries of Charity, and his pontificate. To her surprise, the order sent her three tickets to the celebration.
Mother Teresa visited Baltimore in 1992 for the dedication of the Gift of Hope hospice operated by the Missionaries of Charity. Mother Teresa’s compassion reached out to slum-dwellers, starvation sufferers and Aids victims, and won her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
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A second miracle was credited to her intercession by Pope Francis in December past year, paving way for her to be recognised as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Mother Teresa was beatified on October 19, 2003, at a Vatican ceremony in front of an estimated 300,000 people.
